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Continuity mistake: When Armando uploads the video of the shooting, Mike goes down in a different way than the original sequence, and the passers-by in the background are also different. (00:28:55)

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Continuity mistake: Mike proposes a toast at the wedding to his "bad boys for life" motto. Reggie and Megan raise their glasses over their heads in the wide shot, but they have yet to in their close-up. Notice also Captain Howard next to them, as he is in every shot from that angle, but absent in the wider one. (00:23:30)

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Continuity mistake: The first time we see the AMMO base, Captain Howard is visiting it to be debriefed about the progress in the investigation. Dorn mentions that they are investigating 4Chan. There's nobody standing next to him to his right, but then there's a close-up of his hands typing away at the computer, and there's a slender arm with short sleeves by his side. Rita is at the other side of the desk and Kelly in that scene is wearing long sleeves. (00:18:35)

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Visible crew/equipment: In the opening shot of the foot race preparations, when Mike says that stretching is cheating, the camera casts a visible reflection on the sidewalk when it pans. (00:14:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Marcus calls Mike a "dumba$$" about Rita, his bottle of product placement is tilted towards him, but in Mike's reaction shot ("What?"), it's perfectly straight. (00:13:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Rita looks at baby Marcus's picture on old Marcus's phone, she holds it differently between shots. (00:13:00)

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Continuity mistake: At the bar, Marcus and Mike begin their heart-to-heart talk about a family. Martin Lawrence's hands cross in different ways depending on the camera angle; when the camera is on Will Smith's side, Lawrence's left hand is lower on the table; when it's on Lawrence's side, he keeps it higher - watch his index when he's told about getting fat and breaking 'stuff'. (00:12:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Captain Harris calls for a toast, "To Marcus," the guy behind him is pointing his phone in a totally different direction. He was pointing the phone towards him; now he starts the shot with the phone pointed away. (00:09:00)

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Plot hole: Isabel's escape can happen just because it's off-screen. For it to happen, it's critical that every single guard (minus the one she kills) is inside the monitors' room, but not a single one stays behind, because it needs that no guard can see what is happening, in person or remotely. No amount of other blindly loyal fellow prisoners who are staying behind can cover not only her fully switching her clothes, but also transporting the body (who was dressed up in full, even if there was no need for that) from the middle of the room to the nearest washing machine. It also needs the paramedics to completely bail out of doing their job; she is not Hannibal Lecter, she is not wearing the face of her victim, she has just some blood smeared on her and superficial cuts.

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Continuity mistake: When Marcus' daughter says about the baby's name, "it was Reggie's idea," suddenly the way Marcus holds said baby changes between shots. (00:04:15)

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Continuity mistake: After the truck smashes through the drug deal location, there's a brief intermission with Julie trying to open her cuffs, saying "Go, go, go," and then Sanchez fires at a bad guy on the scaffolds, killing him. A few seconds of hectic action pass, Julie detonates the barrels, and Marcus looks up and shoots another villain on the scaffolds. As he falls, you can see another one close by; it's the same guy who died earlier. (01:44:50 - 01:45:25)

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Continuity mistake: Marcus opens a locker inside Mike's house and fetches two boxes of ammo from it. Look at his body when he is about to close it; he reveals the content of the locker, with a pair of handcuffs shining in the darkness of the bottom shelf. When Julie looks inside to get her handcuff keys, the handcuffs themselves are in a different part of the locker. (01:30:00)

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Plot hole: Marg Helgenberger's investigation reveals that the mole has called Club Hell from the precinct. However, if you look at the scene, the villains are not expecting them (Casper spots them practically by accident and asks out loud what the cop is doing there; Noah looks incredulous), and they are even having their ether traffic in the open at the club front. Note that technically it does not say that a call was made before the blitz, but considering the mole knew about it first-hand, it's unfathomable they wouldn't tip them off. (01:23:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Marcus's sons yell to call their mom, in the first shot she is holding sunflowers, keeping them straight, stem fully vertical. In the next shot, it's at an angle. (01:29:40)

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, Fouchet shoots the decoy cop with his gun. Once. The cop has two bullet wounds. (00:05:30)

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Plot hole: The movie would have been over in barely over half an hour if the detectives could access the file of Eddie Dominguez. It contained the revelation of who the mole was, which unlocks by itself access to the villain at the end of the movie. It's never explained (nor justified) in the movie why this file would be so secret and out of reach for the Bad Boys, other than to keep the plot going.

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Stupidity: The plan Fouchet enacts at the beginning of the movie is considered very clever by the captain, Mike, and everyone commenting on it. Fouchet emptied the entire police station (minus a single guard) by murdering a guy dressed as a cop and reporting the crime. It is said that the smartest part is that he did not kill a real cop so the whole force is not after him. The fun part is that he kills the fake cop and dumps him in the street, calling the police immediately after, himself, with the van they are using for the heist. Even assuming that his symbolic killing and massive heist right inside the police HQ don't draw the entire police force on him because of weird office politics he can't control, it's kind of amazing that his 'decoy' involved him having a head start of seconds from the police force he openly taunted, and that he can predict for unexplained reasons will be busy (but absolutely not looking for him) for 20 minutes.

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Other mistake: Boyd calls an office in Rome, Inspector Lavazzi. Lavazzi is not in his office, so another officer, Valeria, answers the phone, saying a few lines in Italian (in the rest of the movie, she speaks English with Lavazzi). Shyann Yan is not a native speaker, which would be fine given her ethnicity, but she is also not a competent one. Surely, she is not competent enough to be an officer in Italy. (01:04:00)

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Continuity mistake: Dr. Mackles' lecture is interrupted by a student who asks him a question. He raises his hands and says, "Sir?" A student in the first row turns towards him. But Morgan Freeman pauses for a moment and says, "Yes?" in a different camera angle; the girl in the first row then turns again. (00:05:00)

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Stupidity: While certainly being a charismatic villain, Fouchet's actions throughout the movie seem to hardly make sense. He kills his henchman Eddie and the call girl he hired because he is afraid of the security of his drug deal being breached. However, he leaves two bodies behind and the whole 2 kilos of heroin in its original evidence room-taped package that directly connect this incident to the drug heist. Then, when he finally gets the location of the witness to his already obvious murders, he does not just put a bullet in her while she is at his mercy, but rather drags her around when she has absolutely zero value to him. He even tells Mike very kindly when exactly his drug deal is going to happen.

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